NCAA Football 13: What do we and don't we know?

[Eski33]

From what I see, I know white uniforms won't be getting dirty.

There is a solid screen shot on this site with an LSU player who appears to be pretty dirty. And he is in his white uniform.

[Spooky]

I'll buy NCAA, but won't be buying Madden because of the lack of importing draft. I was already on the fence about Madden this year, and this just sealed it.

[cmidd]

Great, now you can't even use NCAA to update your rosters so you have to buy Madden every year!!! Go ahead people, keep giving your money to EA

[Aggies7]

Good write up Chris. That's one reason I didn't like early demo. Just hope that wasn't the final build and the game will be more polished upon release.

[Old School SD Fan]

The import feature was not only highly regarded by us consumers, but it fueled sales by connecting the games. With no connection, people like me that always bought both will simply cut back and buy only one, their favorite of the two, which for me is NCAA.

I predict a collective sales drop and some serious heat for whomever made this decision.

[Matt10]

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The import feature was not only highly regarded by us consumers, but it fueled sales by connecting the games. With no connection, people like me that always bought both will simply cut back and buy only one, their favorite of the two, which for me is NCAA.

I predict a collective sales drop and some serious heat for whomever made this decision.

This is a very good point - and I find myself being that consumer right now. It's not an automatic first day buy as it used to be.

[Platinum]

I am so heartbroken. The only reason I buy NCAA is to import players over to madden and I just found out that's not possible. I've been chomping at the bits waiting for it to be released. Just to be crushed. NCAA 13 is garbage. Who cares about the heisman challenge. It's a waste of space on the game. Guess I'll just have to figure out how to pass time until the new madden is released. Damn you NCAA! Your suppose to be moving forward. Not backwards. You fell off the chain.

[nortran11]

Pass. The only reason I get NCAA is to import draft classes.

[ghettoqball]

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Good post. Very insightful.

Good post. Very insightful.

[bobtrain]

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"We know that importing draft classes from NCAA to Madden isn’t going to be possible this year, so for all those gamers who claim to buy or rent NCAA only to create the draft classes – don’t bother. We know this feature is gone, but what we don’t know is if anyone will miss it".

Wow really? Working hard to keep that featured communities aren't ya OS? You're not sure anybody will miss it? I'm guessing by that statement, you haven't been reading the responses on your own site, or pasta's, or EA's or youtube. Importing classes is HUGE and will be sorely missed by a ton of people.

In fact there a decent number of people who won't buy either now, me included. I know EA doesn't care about how important it was to fans, but you don't have to just co-sign any talking point they put out just to keep your featured community status. C'mon Son!!!!!

Agree. This feature added so much depth. From what I heard the reason why it was removed this year is because Madden now has the physics engine while NCAA doesn't so there was a compatibility issue. I heard they will try to add it next year, which means only one thing... We can hope that NCAA 14 will have physics.

[That Guy In The Back]

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Pass. The only reason I get NCAA is to import draft classes.

Pass on Madden. Only reason I get Madden is to see my NCAA players.

[Kingfish]

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The problem with Connected Careers in NCAA is that it would likely be the end of editable rosters, the way it is with Madden (and why they don't allow the importing of draft classes). That might be the end of NCAA for me.

Not allowing the draft class importing is why I cancelled my Madden preorder, but isn't changing my view of NCAA.

I would also hope for NCAA...and eventually HOPE they do this in Madden...is to give the user a chance to have a traditional career(the way its been prior) path OR use the new Connected Career Mode.

If enough folks scream about it AND don't drop the money on Madden, I bet they will at least give the user an option. Or at least you hope(I use that word a lot when talking about EA) they would.

[LastExit]

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Agree. This feature added so much depth. From what I heard the reason why it was removed this year is because Madden now has the physics engine while NCAA doesn't so there was a compatibility issue. I heard they will try to add it next year, which means only one thing... We can hope that NCAA 14 will have physics.

I can't imagine NCAA 14 not getting the new physics engine next year and if compatability was the issue then it will be back.

I'd still love to know how the crowd sounds came out....hopefully they are not as bad as they are on the demo (that is, setting the crowd at 100 will "fix" it).

[bobtrain]

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Anybody know if pass interference is called realistically this year in 2013?

Penalties in this game make me frustrated. Why even have a slider for pass interference when it's never possible? On Heisman difficulty the Defensive AI HAS to run through you to make it difficult. Yet, no PI. It's just the CPU cheesing. But really, I would like to see penalties happen more often as they do in real life.

[moylan1234]

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Where would I find those? Need to know for my teambuilder team.

check around the 5:00 mark in this vid <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OmeMCAoy_b8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

looks to me like just about everything can be improved with winning/signing better players. The only things it seems you cant change are proximity to home and playing time for obvious reasons